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[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I tried btop. It slowed my computer way the fuck down, so I went back to htop

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

really? I've never had much issues

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My laptop went bonkers trying to run it, maybe I have something misconfigured somewhere. I wanted to like it because it looks great, but I couldn't because it was seemingly too resource intensive.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

i see, that's a bit of a shame because i enjoy it a lot.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Somebody mentioned I may have been running bpytop, so maybe this whole thing is my bad. I honestly can't remember what I ran now - I thought it was btop

[–] lelgenio@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe you used bpytop, not btop? They look the same iirc.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah you need a decently fast hw accelerated terminal for it
for example, the gnome terminal is pretty slow; if you're using it, try running it in alacrity or kitty and see if that improves performance.